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“Anne Frank didn’t die in a gas chamber,” Never Again Action Massachusetts spokesperson Elizabeth Weinbloom told the Boston Globe. “She died of a communicable disease in a crowded detention facility. It’s very clear that that’s going to happen to immigrants being held in Massachusetts.”An image of Holocaust victim Anne Frank was projected onto the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston Sunday night.

There are mounting calls for lower-risk inmates to be released from British prisons as coronavirus spreads. ‘This global pandemic does not of itself yet provide grounds for Mr Assange’s release,’ judge says

Detroit bus drivers collectively declared Tuesday morning that they weren’t going to work without safety precautions.The drivers’ union backed them up and their brief work stoppage, less than 24 hours, won all their demands. An example for bus drivers around the country.

India’s Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in overcrowded prisons in the country and has asked different State governments to constitute a panel to decide on norms to release prisoners facing up to seven years jail term on parole.